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Samsung One UI 8.0 Update Brings Massive Overhaul To Security On Galaxy Smartphones
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Jun 25, 2025
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what's up YouTube jeff back from Sammy
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Guru here and today on the very exciting
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Samsung video for you guys And if you
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watched my last video you know that I
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now have 1 UI 8.0 running on my Galaxy
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S25 Ultra the international model right
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here And uh if you want to go back and
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check that other video you can talk you
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can see me talk about how I installed
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this and the build number and all that
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good stuff But just to show you guys you
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can see the software information right
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here And there you go 1 UI 8.0 Android
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version 16 Again there's the cool
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Android 16 animation But today I want to
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spotlight one of the cool things that I
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found in 1 UI 8.0 this early beta build
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which is a lot of improvements to secure
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folder which people have been asking for
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for a long time So we're going to get
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into that today What's new with secure
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folder in 1 UI 8.0 before we get started
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That is how we fund the program So if
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you go into secure folder in 1UI 8.0 the
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first thing you'll notice let me show
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you guys this I showed it in the last
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video on my screen lock I have both of
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my thumbs set up as a biometric option
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The reason I'm showing you this is
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because now with secure folder you can
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set up a separate fingerprint that does
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not necessarily correspond to your
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biometric unlock Notice how my index
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finger is not one that unlocks my phone
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Now if you go to secure folder and I
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have biometrics set up you'll notice
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this thumb does not unlock it This thumb
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does not unlock it My index finger does
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unlock it So you can set up a specific
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fingerprint that only unlocks your
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secure folder and that's all it does Now
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this is a new feature specific to 1 UI
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8.0 And in fact let me slide in my
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Galaxy S25 Ultra here that's running 1
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UI 7.0 so we can take a look at secure
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folder on both of these devices side by
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side I'll give you guys a better option
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So here you also can have PIN pattern
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you know biometric unlocks as well
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You'll notice that on 1 UI 7.0 So
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there's a lot less options including
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this new option here that you'll notice
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right away with a little orange dot that
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Samsung uses to highlight things that
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are new Hide secure folder is a new
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option If you hide secure folder it
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provides an extra layer of protection
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The secure folder app will icon will
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disappear Apps and data stored secure
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folder encrypted Apps won't work and you
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won't receive any notifications from
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them until you unhide secure folder tap
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the secure folder button in the quick
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panel up here can have a secure folder
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toggle and then it will appear again So
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this is great for extra security The
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reason this is here and not on 1 UI7 is
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because the secure folder in 1UI 8.0 is
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now using the Android 16 private space
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API instead of the work profile You
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might be wondering what work profile is
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and what it does Well it's how Samsung I
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didn't understand that Bixby doesn't
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understand either as you can tell from
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my speaker in the background Uh it uses
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the work profile on Android to set up a
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separate kind of folder place for you to
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store things But there were several
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vulnerabilities with this that were
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discovered that was basically leaking
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people's photos and other information uh
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like the autogenerated stories that we
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have in the gallery on Samsung phones
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the private space API is a lot more
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secure and so you won't have these kind
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of issues popping up that we've seen
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with secure folder in 1 UI 7.0 So you
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have this new option You'll also notice
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sort is still here on both You can still
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do the same There's really nothing new
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there Lock and exit Uh encrypt So here
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you can encrypt but this automatically
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does that So you don't have that option
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manually It's not necessary to have that
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here has hide secure folder which is not
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present over here Add files which of
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course just lets you add files Now you
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can actually see a little difference
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between 1 UI7 and 1 UI 8 here Notice the
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extra blur gradient here on this menu
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It's also up just a little bit higher
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but that's only because I have the
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gesture hint turned on on this phone and
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I don't have it over here This gradient
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blur is a big part of 1 UI8's design
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language But otherwise this is pretty
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much the same in terms of the ad files
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Customize If you go to customize I
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didn't really find any super new options
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in 1 UI8 in terms of customization You
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got the same icons as before the same
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colors as before There isn't really a
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whole lot new You'll see down here
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though in the bottom right corner you
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have this little secure folder like icon
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that lets you know that you're in there
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That's not present in 1 UI7.0
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Now if we go into settings there are a
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number of things that are different
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including what I already told you guys
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earlier about the separate fingerprint
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that you can enroll at the time of setup
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So if you go into your lock type let's
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go back to yes lock type Let me enter my
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PIN here And then over here I'll enter
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my pattern You'll see here where it says
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fingerprints this one says registered
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And this one says one fingerprint added
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It also says current lock type with
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fingerprints registered This is just
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saying essentially that you already have
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registered fingerprints in the main
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fingerprint uh biometrics of settings
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and these can be used for secure folder
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However over here you can actually set
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up separate fingerprints to use with
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secure folder only You see how you can
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add these these are only utilized within
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secure folder And it's basically
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separate from the fingerprints that you
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add inside of the regular biometrics cuz
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you'll see right here I only have one
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fingerprint set up in secure folder But
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if we go into security and privacy we go
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to lock screen you guys will see right
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here I've got two fingerprints added
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over here So these are completely
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separate fingerprint enrollments one
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that is specific to opening the secure
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folder which is something that is indeed
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new to uh 1 UI 8.0 Uh you can see a
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couple of these other things Autolock
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secure folder make pattern visible This
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is cuz I have a pattern right here Add
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secure folder to the app screen
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Most of these other things you know are
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not you know this basically you can turn
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on or off but because you can hide
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secure folder here I guess they didn't
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probably feel the need to add this
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option explicitly at the top on 1 UI 8.0
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over here on the right Notifications you
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can see your notifications They changed
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this menu just a little bit Um now you
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can see hide content hide content with
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secure folders locked Here you can show
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content as well if you want So you have
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an extra option with 1 UI 8.0 You could
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got your list of apps You can choose the
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various settings for secure folder Um
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here you'll notice you see here how
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you've got apps secure folder and
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personal Whereas over here you don't
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really have that setting You can toggle
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both separately in 1 UI8 Galaxy There's
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really nothing that's changed there You
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can manage various accounts here Autos
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sync again personal and secure folder is
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is split in 1 UI 8.0 restore from backup
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more settings and then other security
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settings here you'll see Samsung pass
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data usage aspect ratio all these things
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that you can do and then you don't
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really have that setting over here you
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see over here you have galaxy I restore
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from backup and then here is the set of
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settings that you have for 1 UI 7.0 on
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the left you do not have this aspect
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ratio option It's actually renamed to
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full screen apps So they just changed
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the name here from 1 UI7 to 1 UI 8 full
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screen apps became aspect ratio but
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there really is nothing you know
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completely different about that So the
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main thing you guys can see the two
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different version numbers here as well
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Obviously when UI8 version is later
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starts with version two of secure folder
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The main thing is using the private
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space API which is a huge deal Makes
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things a lot more secure Uh in addition
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to that now you can enroll separate
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fingerprints for unlocking secure folder
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It's going to make secure folder a lot
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better to use And of course you can now
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hide secure folder um when you don't
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want other people to find it And then
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you can reenable that from the quick
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settings You can obviously you know have
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that quick settings tile not even up
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here in your main quick settings You
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know it could be if you edit it could be
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up here right you can just hide it you
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know way at the bottom if you want There
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secure folder like hide it all the way
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at the bottom And it doesn't have to be
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in your visible quick settings So it
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could be when they swipe all the way
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down people probably won't notice it
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which is kind of nice Anyway hope you
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guys enjoyed the video If you did like
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icon for future videos like this Some
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exciting stuff coming to Secure Folder
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Still not a proper app lock and I hear
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all of you guys on that I really wish
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Samsung would give us a proper app lock
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in addition to Secure Folder I think
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they're both great features but they
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have completely different use cases as
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many of you guys have pointed out to me
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